Gaëtan Brulotte is a writer that "never stopped exploring new avenues to tell the world we are in" (Michel Lord, Lettres québécoises). This new collection of stories, published in French, is no exception and brilliantly confirms it with its very inventive narratives. Humor and irony accompany the poetry of life and its tragedies, and alternate with its more prosaic or spiritual dimensions. These stories deal with subjects close to anyone's daily life, like making the bed or having a walk, taking a vacation or sending an email, writing lists of grocery or preparing a reception at home. We can read also about tormented love stories, mindless violence, as well as on petty fascisms which may poison one's life at work or in couples. Brulotte's stories offer a renewed perception of reality in all its complexity: nature and language are reexamined, as is the vanity of human endeavors or the body when suffering, dying or, on the contrary, full of life. As in his previous works, Brulotte suggests lucidity, creativity and beauty as solutions to save everything from nonsense. From one story to another, readers are invited to laugh at human frailness, to step back to take time to meditate and wonder, but also to rebel against absurd directions our world is taking sometimes.

Video Interview by Laurence Grenier on this book, Paris, July 29, 2014. 8 min. In French on Vimeo or Youtube.

-"This new collection of stories confirms the importance and value of this writer's work, as he is considered one of the great masters of contemporary short story in Québec." Margareta Gyurcsik, Dialogues francophones, Romania, 2015.

Gaëtan Brulotte has authored some fifteen books including The Secret Voice, Double Exposure and Life Sideways. His works have received as many literary awards in Canada and France, including the Robert-Cliche Award, the Adrienne-Choquette Award, the France-Québec Award, the Radio-Canada Drama Prize. In 2014 in France, he was made Knight of the Order of Academic Palms for his contribution to the promotion of French language, culture and literature and for 2016-17 received a Fulbright Award for the US Government. For more info or for interview, please contact:Claire Cayer, Press attaché. Phone : 1(819)327.11.12 • E-mail : claire.cayer@bell.netDistribution : Dimedia, 539, BL Lebeau, Ville Saint-Laurent (Québec) H4N 1S2Phone : 541 336 39 41 • Fax : 514 331 39 16 general@dimedia.qc.ca